patriot

happy fourth of July everyone!!! i cant wait till tonight for fireworks:). i was looking for a good fourth of july poem that i could post but all i could find were like;"my country tis of thee" poems so i just decided to post my most favorite poem ever!!! so here it is:) please read it and digest it:)))))0

I Can’t Forget You.
spray-painted high on the overpass,
each letter a good foot long,
and I try to picture the writer
hanging from a rope
between midnight and dawn
the weight of his love swaying,
making a trembling
N and G, his mind at work
with the apostrophe—
the grammar of loss—
and his resistance to hyperbole,
no exclamation point
but a period at the end
that shows a heart not given
to exaggeration,
a heart that’s direct with a nofooling
around approach,
and I wonder if he tested the rope
before tying it to the only tree I can see
that would bear his weight,
or if he didn’t care about the freefall
of thirty or more feet
as he locked his wrist to form such
straight T’s,
and still managed, dangling, to flex
for the C and G,
knowing as he did, I’m sure,
the lover would ride this way each day
until she found a way around,
a winding back road with trees
and roadside
tiger lilies, maybe a stream, a
white house, white fence,
a dog in the yard
miles
from this black-letter, open-book
in-your-face missing
that the rain or Turnpike road
crew
will soon wash off.
—Len Roberts
ps is any one else in love with coldplay right now cause i know foshoe' i is!!!